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Dec 18, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz’s Brown Line Prepares to Receive First Passenger

La Paz’s next urban gondola, the Brown Line (Spanish: Línea Café) will welcome its first passenger this Thursday. President Evo Morales will partake in special event to celebrate the opening of the city’s ninth transit ropeway. With a length of just 714m and just two stations, it will be the shortest cable car. Nevertheless, the...

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Dec 09, 2018
Mi Teleférico

CNBC Explores Mi Teleférico in La Paz

How cable-car systems are changing public transport in La Paz from CNBC. Urban gondolas are getting more and more mainstream media attention — so much so that major news outlets are now purposely travelling to La Paz to learn how Mi Teleférico has transported 150 million passengers in just four years!

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Oct 26, 2018
Mi Teleférico

Experience Three of La Paz’s Newest Urban Gondolas

With the opening of the Purple Line, La Paz has completed all of its urban gondolas for 2018. In just one year, the city constructed three urban cable car lines — the White Line, Sky Blue Line and the Purple Line — with a total of 11 stations and 9.9km (6.15mi) of cable. This meant...

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Oct 17, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz Breaks Ridership Record With 318,500 Passengers

A new milestone was set last week when La Paz’s urban gondola network, Mi Teleférico, reached 318,532 passengers in a single day. Regardless of what you might think of Cable Propelled Transit (CPT), these numbers are nothing short of impressive. To put it into perspective, just four years ago, this rugged Bolivian city had zero...

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Oct 12, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz Cable Cars Named World’s Most Spectacular Public Transit System

Mi Teleférico, the world’s largest network of urban gondolas, is continuing to capture the public’s imagination. This week one of the UK’s top newspapers, the Daily Telegraph, described La Paz’s ropeway system as the world’s spectacular transit system. With eight lines now operating throughout the city, the 27.2km network is estimated to transport over 250,000...

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Sep 29, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz Officially Opens 8th Urban Gondola — The Purple Line

Thousands of people in La Paz and El Alto lined the streets on September 28 to celebrate the official opening of the Purple Line (Spanish: Linea Morada). After system construction began back in February 2016, the highly anticipated urban gondola is now finally ready. The cable car’s inauguration marks the city’s 8th urban ropeway and...

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Sep 05, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz’s 8th Urban Gondola, The Purple Line, Receives Its First Passenger

In a span of just five years, La Paz has built over 27km (16.2mi) of rapid transit. That’s faster or nearly the same amount of time it takes to complete infrastructure review processes in some North American jurisdictions. The new Purple Line (Spanish: Línea Morada) which saw its first passenger on Thursday last week marks the...

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Aug 03, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz Opens 7th Urban Gondola, 8th Line To Open in September

Construction works for the world’s largest urban gondola network in La Paz, Bolivia continues to take place at record speeds. Large celebrations took over its street when the president, Evo Morales, was on hand to inaugurate Mi Teleferico’s 7th urban gondola, the Sky Blue Line (Spanish: Línea Celeste), on July 14th. The 2.6km Sky Blue...

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Mar 28, 2018
Mi Teleférico

La Paz Celebrates Opening of Sixth Urban Gondola, the White Line

La Paz-El Alto’s sixth Cable Propelled Transit (CPT) system, the White Line (Spanish: Línea Blanca), was officially inaugurated last Saturday. With its opening, the world’s largest and busiest network of urban ropeways is now more than 60% complete. Thousands of residents, alongside the Bolivian President (Evo Morales), Mi Teleferico’s Executive Manager (Cesar Dockweiler) and the...

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Feb 23, 2018
Doppelmayr, Mi Teleférico

Sky Blue Line and White Line Welcomes Bolivian President

The world’s largest network of ropeways continues to rapidly expand as the White Line (Línea Blanca) and section 1 of the Sky Blue Line (Línea Celeste) are scheduled to enter public service next month in March. The Bolivian president alongside Doppelmayr representatives were the first riders to test the two new urban gondolas last month. The...

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